ESPN and Major League Baseball have a framework agreement in place that would give ESPN the exclusive rights to sell out-of-market regular-season games over the next three years, according to a report from The Athletic on Thursday.

The deal would also include the rights to in-market games for five teams — the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padre and Minnesota Twins — for the next three years.

The deal is not finalized or official and likely won’t be any earlier than next month, per the report.

The financials of the deal are unknown, but expected to be “substantial,” according to the report. MLB and ESPN declined to comment to The Athletic.

ESPN would no longer have rights to its long-owned “Sunday Night Baseball,” and would move its primetime mat

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